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Risorse nel web per una ricostruzione della storia psichiatrica di Virginia Woolf.

Virginia Woolf: una storia psichiatrica. di Malcolm Ingram

(tratto da "Virginia Woolf's Psychiatric history"  di Malcolm Ingram all'indirizzo http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/malcolmi/summary.htm)

"Post-traumatic stress disorder:obscured and revealed" di Lois R. Robley.(http://pigseye.kennesaw.edu) (L'autore, psichiatra della "Kennesaw University", discute i riferimenti al PTSD contenuti nell'opera letteraria e nella biografia di Virginia Woolf)

links su Virginia Woolf (tratto da http://orlando.jp.org/VWW/links.html) info:fuksima@y7.net

• VWOOLF
• LIST_VW: A Room of Woolfians' Own 
  (Virginia Woolf discussion list mainly in Japanese)
• MODBRITS (Modern British & Irish Literature 1895-1955)
• MODERNISM

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• Virginia Woolf Campfire Chat (WWW Message Board)
• Virginia Woolf Lecture Hall
• Virginia Woolf on Women and Fiction (Distance Learning Project)

Société d'Études Woolfiennes

The Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain

• Virginia Woolf (MANTEX)
• VIRGINIA WOOLF: "MIND" AND "MATTER" ON THE PLANE OF A LITERARY CONTROVERSY by Wyndham Lewis
• Virginia Woolf: Hypertext Project by Prof. Landow of Brown Univ.
• Virginia Woolf Seminar by Rose Norman
• T.S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf by Elisa Kay Sparks [Nov.22 '99]
• Virginia Woolf's Psychiatric History by Malcolm Ingram
• Woolf and Psychiatry: In Relation to Miyeko Kamiya and M. Foucault (abstract) by Sei Kosugi [Aug.10 '99]
• Virtual Tour: Mrs Dalloway's London by Richard Goldman
• The Virginia Woolf Connection: A Response by pargiter [Aug.19 '99]
• THE VOICE OF THE SHUTTLE IS OURS by Patricia Klindienst
• EPILOGUE TO "THE VOICE OF THE SHUTTLE IS OURS" by Patricia Klindienst
• Dissertation Abstract. "This Appalling Narrative Business:"Virginia Woolf and the Conventions of Realism by Dr. Michael R. Olin-Hitt.
• Review: Virginia Woolf. The Viginia Woolf manuscripts: from the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg collection at the New York public library (need registration)
• Review: Virginia Woolf. The waves, edited by James M. Haule and Philip H. Smith, Jr.; S.P. Rosenbaum (ed.), A Bloomsbury group reader (need registration)
• The Art and Atheism in To The Lighthouse by Kenneth Tighe
• COMPUTER-ASSISTED CRITICISM on The Waves [Sep.25 '99]

   

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Riportiamo, in riferimento alle pagine dello psichiatra britannico Malcolm Ingram dedicate a V. Woolf, i seguenti "links" e riferimenti bibliografici.

(tratto da http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/malcolmi/refs.htm)

VIRGINIA WOOLF'S PSYCHIATRIC HISTORY

REFERENCES AND BIBLIOGRAPHY

LINKS

For all practical purposes you only need one link - to the VW Web. This outstanding site, constantly expanding and updated, will take you to everything available on the net relevant to Virginia Woolf and Bloomsbury.

Should you want to enter into discussion about Virginia Woolf, or have specific questions about her or her work not readily answered by the standard references, you should join the VWOOLF list. Send an email to 'listproc@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu' and in the body of the message write:

subscribe VWOOLF your first name your second name

and nothing else!

The list is dominated by US academics, a few of whom write in impenetrable jargon. Don't be put off! They are friendly to beginners and amateurs. Someone will know the answer to even the most obscure query, and you may even provoke a lively discussion.

The International Virginia Woolf Society gives details of the various Virginia Woolf societies - a British one was formed recently - and information about academic conferences and recent academic publications.

If you want to know more about manic-depressive psychosis consult the excellent booklet by Erika Hillard at Internet Mental Health.

For creativity and psychiatric disorder, try Manic Depression and Creativity by K R Davison, a good essay from Scientific American by a prominent researcher in this field. Or Are Creativity and Mental Illness Linked?, a similar review article. A useful bibliography of literature and psychology has references up to 1996.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Of making books about Virginia Woolf there seems to be no end. I have made no attempt to cover her writing unless it is autobiographical, and I have excluded all her fiction and all literary criticism about it. Even so , the sources, both primary and secondary, are abundant.

The most up-to-date and authoritative book on Virginia Woolf's illness is Thomas Caramagno's Flight of the Mind. Caramagno is a professor of English but has acquired a formidable knowledge of manic-depressive illness that would put many psychiatrists to shame. He covers most of the ground in this site, and has added to our knowledge of the family history. If you want to find details of how her illness affected her fiction you will find it discussed in great detail here.

For manic -depressive psychosis and creativity, Kay Jamison's Touched with Fire - Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament is written by an acknowledged authority, and is up-to-date and very readable. Her text with F.K. Goodwin: Manic-Depressive Illness is a comprehensive reference.

Anyone wanting to pursue her life should start with Quentin Bell's two-volume biography, now available in a revised edition, well-written by her nephew, and authoritative. There are other good biographies, more up to date, or more detailed on various aspects, but this is the one to start with.

Thereafter - and the above will keep you busy for some time! - the recollections of various friends, edited by Joan Noble, are excellent on her personality. Many, many other friends have written about her, and there are five volumes of autobiography by her husband, Leonard.

For any specific queries about her life, work, friends, places,etc., turn first to Mark Hussey's Virginia Woolf - A to Z, Oxford UP, 1996, which is up-to-date, comprehensive, concise and accurate, and has a huge bibliography, divided into various subsections.

If all this becomes too daunting, seek light relief in Regina Marler's 'Bloomsbury Pie', an irreverent but perspicacious review of the Bloomsbury Industry up to 1997.

REFERENCES

Andreasen, Nancy C. Creativity and Mental Illness. Prevalence rates in writers and their first degree relatives. Am J Psychiat, 1987, 144:10, 1288-1292

Caramagno, Thomas C: The Flight of the Mind: Virginia Woolf's Art and Manic-Depressive Psychosis. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1992

DeSalvo, Louise: The Impact of Childhood Sexual Abuse on her Life and Work. The Womans Press, 1989.

Goodwin FK and Jamison KR Manic-Depressive Illness: NY, Oxford University Press, 1990

Hussey, Mark: Virginia Woolf - A to Z. Oxford University Press, 1996

Jalland, Pat: Octavia Wilberforce. The autobiography of a pioneer woman doctor. Cassell, 1989

Jamison, Kay R.: Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament. Free Press, 1993

Kamiya Miyeko Virginia Woolf:An outline of a study on her personality, illness, work : Confinia Psychiatrica(Basel) 1965 8 189-204

King, James; Virginia Woolf. Hamish Hamilton, London,1994

Lee, Hermione: Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus, London.1996

Ludwig, Arnold M.: The Price of Greatness: Resolving the Creativity and Madness Controversy. Guilford Press, 1995

Marcus, Jane: Virginia Woolf and Bloomsbury; a centenary celebration: Basingstoke, Macmillan, 1987

Marler, Regina: Bloomsbury Pie. 1997

Noble, Joan R.(Ed.): Recollections of Virginia Woolf. London. Peter Owen. 1972

Rose, Phyllis: Woman of Letters: A Life of Virginia Woolf. NY:Oxford; Routledge, 1978

Rosenbaum S.P.(Ed): The Bloomsbury Group: A Collection of Memoirs, Commentary adn Criticism. Croom Helm; University of Toronto, 1975

Savage, George H.: Insanity and Allied Neuroses. Cassell, London, 1884

Slater, Eliot and Meyer, A. : Contributions to a pathography of the musicians: Robert Schumann, Confinia Psychiatrica,1959, 2, 65-94.

Trombley, Stephen: All that summer she was mad: Virginia Woolf and her doctors: London, Junction Books, 1981

Woolf, Leonard: An Autobiography, Vol.1,1880-1911;Vol.2,1911-1969.Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1980

Woolf, Leonard: Letters,ed. Spotts,F. New York:Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich,1989

Woolf, Virginia: A Passionate Apprentice; The Early Journals,1897-1909. Ed. Leaska, M.A. Hogarth Press, London. 1990

Woolf, Virginia: Collected Essays, 4 Vols. London, Hogarth Press, 1966-7

Woolf, Virginia: Congenial Spirits: The Selected Letters of Virginia Woolf, Ed. Joanne T Banks. London, The Hogarth Press,1989